I respect Orthodox Christianity. I read Staniloe's Orthodox Spirituality and found it deeply insightful. While I can't say I understood it, I found it more valuable than most Abrahamic cults and if you're following Christ you might as well join His church, not the pagan syncretists (Catholics) and book worshipers (Protestants). That said, if we're tracing the genealogy of ideas, Yeshua and the Gospel writers studied the Septuagint as well as other Hellenistic works (Gospel writers are highly educated in Greek literary and theatrical form). While the immortal soul is hard to find in the Hebrew texts, as Israel's soul is it's material wealth and people, it is not hard to find in Plato and Plutinous. So through the bastard son of god we get bastardized hybrid of Greek and Hebrew thought, just what a Roman occupied middle eastern territory needed to adapt to the humiliation of being conquered once again. If the Orthodox aesthetic appeals to you, I'm glad you found your bliss on this rock of suffering and agony. If Hell is life without god, then I'll say even Hell has its moments. It's not all bad. There's meaning and joy to be found outside Yeshua's Ultimatum. We're not all Waiting for Godot and that's Ok. If God wants to judge me for using my mind to come to my own conclusions, I'll accept that. In the meantime, I think Epicurious was right. If there is a god, they don't intervene, so pay them no mind.